Tort vs Easement - What's the difference?
tort | easement |
An injury or wrong.
* Spenser
(legal) A wrongful act, whether intentional or negligent, which causes an injury and can be remedied at civil law, usually through awarding damages.
(rfc-sense) The area of law dealing with such wrongful acts.
(obsolete) Stretched tight; taut.
* Emerson
(legal) Legal right to use another person's property, generally in order to cross a part of the property, or to gain access to something on the property.
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(archaic) Relief, easing.
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(archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating
(architecture) A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, handrail, etc.
As nouns the difference between tort and easement
is that tort is fraction while easement is (legal) legal right to use another person's property, generally in order to cross a part of the property, or to gain access to something on the property.As an adjective tort
is broken.tort
English
(wikipedia tort)Etymology 1
Dialectal variation of (l).Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m), from .Noun
(en noun)- that had them long opprest with tort
Synonyms
* delict (Scottish law)Derived terms
* tortiousSee also
*Etymology 3
Adjective
(er)- Yet holds he them with tortest rein.
Anagrams
* ----easement
English
(wikipedia easement)Noun
(en noun)- The power company has an easement to put their poles along the edge of this land.